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Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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This is going to revolutionise office work. If it works as advertised, we are witnessing the complete reshuffling of (office) work and unprecedented productivity increases. I'm wondering about the future job market. edit: livestream: https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/

No it won't, we'll get more useless texts because it's easier to write them, we'll get more communication errors because people will only read the summaries instead the real texts.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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How will they get the data to train the model. They have everyone’s documents, and could potentially produce amazing results. But how will they protect against content leaks?

This seems to me like the "grounding" (getting documents/data) won't be fed back into the system. It will just be used to verify that output has an actual artifact that is been based on.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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post #17

A couple of years ago I was on a walk with my wife and she asked me “what’s the point of Siri? it can hardly do anything useful outside weather and timers.” I told her a tall tale of how these things are essentially going to become our personal assistants in the future, they’ll know about our unique situations and can act accordingly. Just like the rich and powerful have people who specialise in organising their live…

You're assuming that the AI assistant will have your own interests as its priority, and not the interests of some other party. If this 'tool' is being supplied by a government or corporation, then it could be used to create a very static hierarchy - imagine some incompetent upper-level bureaucrat using it to discover and sabotage any competent lower-level employees who might eventually present threats to their own position? Germany's STASI would have also used it as a mass-surveillance tool, and China today would use it to generate individual social credit scores.

It does have great promise in an open-source self-hosted incarnation not controlled by external actors, however.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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post #5

I wonder if they will add this to the operating system as well? Like a gpt-powered clippy that can “see” your screen.

I thought about this yesterday, it would be relatively easy to pull it off using GPT vision and some basic OS integration

Rewind.ai does full time screen recording taking advantage of macos native OCR so you can do full text search of anything that has ever appeared on your screen - i'd expect they're working on throwing a language model on top

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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post #7

They've really put the summarisation and Whisper capabilities to good use! "Unlock productivity. We all want to focus on the 20% of our work that really matters, but 80% of our time is consumed with busywork that bogs us down. Copilot lightens the load. From summarizing long email threads to quickly drafting suggested replies, Copilot in Outlook helps you clear your inbox in minutes, not hours. And every meeting is a…

That's just marketing babble,look what most people did with Word and Excel.

Re: Microsoft 365 Copilot – your copilot for work

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How will they get the data to train the model. They have everyone’s documents, and could potentially produce amazing results. But how will they protect against content leaks?

It's a three part model. The LLM does not know the docs, it gets a modified prompt that includes the context
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